Brazil has declared a three-day mourning period for the death of football icon Pele, who died aged 82.
The Vila Belmiro Stadium, where he played at Santos, will host his funeral, spanning two days early next week.
The club said that Pele’s body will leave the nearby hospital and be placed in the centre of the field, where mourners can visit from 10am that day until 10am the following day.
The home of Pele’s mother, who is still alive at 100, will be part of the route where the casket is walked through the streets of the city – before a family-only burial.
Tributes have continues to flow in from around the world for arguably the best footballer of all time.
“Overnight one of the greatest and best known and loved humans, actually, to walk the planet, has left us,” former Socceroos captain Craig Foster said on TODAY.
“Not just, as everyone has said, one of if not the greatest footballer to ever live.”
Pele’s star began to shine at the 1958 World Cup, where he scored a brace in Brazil’s trophy-clinching victory over Sweden.
